I think it's Friday and I like it a lot.

JasonPratt · June 13, 2015, 11:12:19 PM

Just double-checked on my copy, and there seems to be no way to change the icons in-game. However, there are many NATO counter mods around, such as at the mod subcategory at Unityofcommand.net

I haven't personally tried any such mods yet (because I don't mind the bobbleheads), but the most popular such modpack at the aforementioned site is http://unityofcommand.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=2282

Gusington · June 14, 2015, 08:32:01 PM

I could have sworn there was an option to switch the icons in UoC...but I haven't played in many months. The AI is wicked though and I enjoyed UoC a lot.

MengJiao · June 15, 2015, 08:56:01 AM

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Moderately, slightly NSFW.

Getting my butt kicked as the Finns in Red Winter over Vassal.

Also, just started Fallout 3: New Vegas and playing Governor of Poker 2.

Hanging on as some Athenians and one tough bunch from the Argolid with some treacherous Thessalian horsemen over Vassal

Probably DCS, maybe the Hawk or the mig21 mostly

Invisible -- have a team of 3 and they are getting expensive to equip!

Maybe some ARMAIII

Things sort of went as planned. Vassal PBEM is a fun way to play games and I did spend most of my time in DCS -- but mostly working on the MIG15bisbeta. The early jets are a lot more manageable in terms of systems to learn than jets like the MIG21. Also the MIG15 is pretty much a close-range dogfighter with a lot of power so its more like flying a very good WWII fighter than something really advanced.

vyshka · June 15, 2015, 11:23:28 AM

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Happy 22nd wedding anniversary, JudgeDredd. Happy birthday, Jarhead.

I will probably spend most of my weekend getting reacquainted with Command H.Q..

A nice game by Dan Bunten. It would have been interesting to see what he came up with if he did the civil game, but I liked command hq.

I'll be spending time on my Tamworth side in Football Manager 15, and will probably spend time in Elite, and either Gal Civ 3 or Distant Worlds.

Edit: And Command, because I have no willpower when it is 50% off.

I ended up spending time seeing how well Steam and some games run on Linux. I tried Age of Wonders III, XCOM, Football Manager 15, and Kerbal Space Program. I also played KSP, XCOM, How to Survive, and MOO2 on Windows. I also found some restraint and made use of the new Steam refund policy to return some games I almost certainly won't spend much time playing before the next sale, so I think my expenditures for the sale are back down under $10.

JasonPratt · June 15, 2015, 11:50:59 AM

In accord with the prophecy (and also resurgence of a stomach virus or whatever), I spent most of Saturday and Sunday working through most of the southern third of the Far Cry 4 campaign. While the main character is about as softly developed as a bag full of marshmallows, I'd rather have that than Douche McDudebro growing up to be a psycho killer. :P Everyone else is written as well or better than in FC3. Granted, no one can be as freaky-evil as Vash or whatever his name was, but Pagan Min does a much better job of being cultured-crazy-evil than Hoyt. Amita or whatever her name is, is 1000% better than all the main female FC3 characters put together.

The visuals as everyone already knows are amazing, though I'm already very much over having three high-Himalayan missions in a row -- I'd rather have those spaced out (though I supposed I could just ignore most of them as optional...?)

My love for the Buzzer (essentially an old "Mosquito Air", i.e. a bike helicopter) is pure and undefiled, and only sharpened by the realization that such things exist in real life and for a cost of around ~~$18,000~~ $35,000 I could in 100% real life kill myself thoroughly on such a thing by being shotgunned at the first opportunity by Tennessean neighbors who prefer their airspace peaceful and quiet (not to say private). I am nevertheless tempted to buy one and put it together anyway. Maybe farmers would let me mount a GoPro on it and fly around their fields to check on their crops.

Considering how much thought the devs put into little details (like the weedeater sound of the blades of the Buzzer bumping into treetops!

) I'm a little surprised they didn't think to write in dialogue variations based on unlocking the wingsuit (which arrives early in the game), since that would seem to be something that would impress the local people a lot: Ajay son of Rohan (or whatever) doesn't even need a small helicopter or hang glider to fly! But I'm a little less than 1/3 of the way through the game (maybe only 1/4, depending on how the map shakes out), so perhaps that's coming.

Martok · June 17, 2015, 08:45:17 AM

A belated Happy Anniversary to JD and Happy Birthday to Jarhead! Hope you two had a good day. :)

Gaming-wise, I mostly played older titles this past weekend, as I was initially having problems with the internet at my new place (and corresponding problems with my Steam games -- and I was having problems with offline mode for some reason).

Birth of the Federation dominated (no surprise there ::) ), having started a new campaign as the Feds. (I regretfully abandoned my Dominion campaign, as I was already too overpowered compared to the other four empires; getting the Tellarites and T'lani to join me put me way over the top.) This time around, I've bumped up the other four powers to two civ levels above me in an effort to make them more competetive; we'll see how that plays out.

Inspired by my reading of The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, I've also started a new campaign in Medieval Total War/Viking Invasion, this time as Aragon. Let the Reconquista begin!

And because I firmly believe that D&D is good for the soul, some time was spent playing Neverwinter Nights 2 as well. 8)

Quote from: JasonPratt on June 15, 2015, 11:50:59 AM
In accord with the prophecy (and also resurgence of a stomach virus or whatever), I spent most of Saturday and Sunday working through most of the southern third of the Far Cry 4 campaign. While the main character is about as softly developed as a bag full of marshmallows, I'd rather have that than Douche McDudebro growing up to be a psycho killer. :P Everyone else is written as well or better than in FC3. Granted, no one can be as freaky-evil as Vash or whatever his name was, but Pagan Min does a much better job of being cultured-crazy-evil than Hoyt. Amita or whatever her name is, is 1000% better than all the main female FC3 characters put together.

The visuals as everyone already knows are amazing, though I'm already very much over having three high-Himalayan missions in a row -- I'd rather have those spaced out (though I supposed I could just ignore most of them as optional...?)

My love for the Buzzer (essentially an old "Mosquito Air", i.e. a bike helicopter) is pure and undefiled, and only sharpened by the realization that such things exist in real life and for a cost of around ~~$18,000~~ $35,000 I could in 100% real life kill myself thoroughly on such a thing by being shotgunned at the first opportunity by Tennessean neighbors who prefer their airspace peaceful and quiet (not to say private). I am nevertheless tempted to buy one and put it together anyway. Maybe farmers would let me mount a GoPro on it and fly around their fields to check on their crops.

Considering how much thought the devs put into little details (like the weedeater sound of the blades of the Buzzer bumping into treetops! ) I'm a little surprised they didn't think to write in dialogue variations based on unlocking the wingsuit (which arrives early in the game), since that would seem to be something that would impress the local people a lot: Ajay son of Rohan (or whatever) doesn't even need a small helicopter or hang glider to fly! But I'm a little less than 1/3 of the way through the game (maybe only 1/4, depending on how the map shakes out), so perhaps that's coming.

Jason, I think you need to start writing reviews/articles for the site. I've always had zero interest in the Far Cry series, yet you almost made me want to get FC4 based on this post alone (and it's not the first time you've done that). :P

undercovergeek · June 17, 2015, 01:07:05 PM

As a side note don't spend 30 hours including 2 4am sessions setting up the first witp Japanese turn only to find out you'd set it up in the wrong section and now need to do it all again

On a second side note - I did not realise it got light at 345!!

JasonPratt · June 18, 2015, 01:05:27 PM

Jeez, UCG, how far north do you live?? (I've honestly forgotten, but I know we have a lot of Canadian jokes around here and someone must inspire those... ;) )

Martok,

There aren't many places in a video game I feel like I might actually want to live, in real life. But this little fictional country of Kyrat, maybe 2.5 miles across, is one. Flying around on a Buzzer is the safest mode of travel, and allows a full experience of scenery porn, but even just hiking randomly around is unendingly gorgeous; moreso in a way because you can't always see everything at once. With the occasional tiger or eagle or badger attack, you know.

I even learned something by accident that must be true in real life and which I probably should have known already but never really did: the colorful flags flown as apparently random decorations in Himalayan countries? -- they have prayers written on them. (I infer they're prayers as an educated guess.) The dev team includes them faintly on close examination at certain graphic levels.